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Sridevi Cheruku

Hyderabad

Summary

As a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of experience, I am passionate about building and empowering high-performing teams to deliver enterprise-grade products. My career has been defined by a unique combination of deep technical expertise, strong interpersonal skills, and strategic business insight—particularly in developing Cloud PaaS/SaaS solutions, and Windows Desktop Applications.

I have successfully led and scaled global engineering teams, championed product engineering excellence, and cultivated strategic vendor relationships. A strong advocate for talent development, I take pride in mentoring future leaders, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Additionally, I have served as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, contributing to key organizational initiatives, and long-term strategic planning.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager

Dell Technologies
Hyderabad
11.2018 - Current
  • Led multiple development teams in adopting a DevOps culture, establishing CI/CD pipelines, and managing infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and Dell's on-premises cloud. and driving end-to-end automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Partnered with engineers to integrate secure coding practices, automated code reviews, and static/dynamic security analysis into the development process.
  • Designed and implemented robust automated build, test, and deployment frameworks to accelerate feature delivery while ensuring software quality and stability.
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship to teams on architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices, resulting in scalable and maintainable codebases.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, QA, and Operations teams to align engineering initiatives with business goals, improve delivery predictability, and enhance customer satisfaction.
  • Directed the design and development of scalable data pipelines and ETL frameworks, enabling reliable data ingestion, transformation, and analytics across multiple business domains.
  • Led recruitment efforts, identifying and hiring senior and mid-level technical and managerial professionals. Mentoring talent encompasses reskilling initiatives for emerging technologies.

Manager:

  • Lead/manage a team of exceptionally talented architects and engineers to deliver best-in-class DevOps, DevSecOps, and performance engineering solutions for Dell's commercial and consumer client products.
  • Leveraged leadership skills to identify deficiencies and opportunities to improve policies, procedures, and controls, and to meet stakeholder expectations.

Cross Product Lead.

  • Responsible for collaborating between Experiences and Product Lines, guiding cross-product delivery, and preventing or mitigating roadblocks for product teams.
  • Establish outcome-based roadmaps, stakeholder communications on cross-cutting teams' progress, and timelines.

Technical Consultant

Wipro Limited
Hyderabad
03.2005 - 01.2018
  • Managed EMS and central monitoring teams and built the strategy for tool capability enhancement & modernization while managing the existing toolset and operations.

Technical specialist

  • Responsible for installation, configuration, management & support of on-premise and Cloud based Enterprise wide monitoring, CMDB, API, Orchestration & reporting tools.

Middleware lead

  • Responsible for Building and implementation of middleware solutions to meet business demands. Worked with stakeholders and Development teams in developing configurations based on requirements.

Middleware Administrator

EAPT solutions India Pvt Ltd, Citigroup
Mumbai
03.2005 - 08.2006
  • Responsible for management of middleware technologies. Handled configurations, trouble shooting & Performance tuning and Deployment of application artifacts on to Production and Development Environments

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant technologies
Chennai
01.2004 - 03.2005
  • Responsible for Creation, Update, Review of test Scenarios, scripting, execution, defect logging and tracking. Tested various applications using Black box testing techniques.

Education

Masters in Computer Application - Computer Science

Osmania University
08.2003

Skills

Managerial

  • Project management
  • Budgeting
  • Risk management
  • Lean engineering

Technical

  • Cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle)
  • Python, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark
  • Docker, Kubernetes, PKS, and Istio
  • GitLab, Copilot, Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, and Prometheus
  • HashiCorp Vault, JFrog Artifactory, and Harbor
  • LangChain, LangGraph, vector embeddings
  • MSSQL, MongoDB, Postgres

Tools

  • Agile methodology, JIRA

linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridevi-cheruku/

Certification

  • Certified in Data Science with Python
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Developer (CKAD)
  • Hashicorp Certified Terraform administrator
  • Hashicorp Certified Vault administrator
  • AWS certified cloud solution architect associate
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Certified
  • lean practitioner
  • v9 ITIL Foundation Certification for IT Service Management
  • Trained on Six Sigma

Accomplishments

Ø Awarded ‘Rock star Manager’ at Dell Technologies for 2 consecutive years

Ø Received the Dell 'Game Changer' award for the year 2022-23

Ø Represented Dell Technologies at the KubeCon, San Diego, US

Ø Succefully complete RISE program for Women leaders at Dell

Ø Successfully completed Empowering Diverse Leaders year long program and acted as the Panelist

Received multiple awards, like special recognition, star of the quarter, best team special team award, and Galaxy award for best team

Timeline

Senior Manager

Dell Technologies
11.2018 - Current

Technical Consultant

Wipro Limited
03.2005 - 01.2018

Middleware Administrator

EAPT solutions India Pvt Ltd, Citigroup
03.2005 - 08.2006

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant technologies
01.2004 - 03.2005

Masters in Computer Application - Computer Science

Osmania University
Sridevi Cheruku